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I have asked about this a number of times, such as Manual of Style / non-initial acronyms. Unfortunately despite unhelpful responses to most of these it is clear the MOS in it's discussion of acronyms does not include cases of non-initialisms and it is left up to other policies like Common Name. Since EXOSAT and Exosat are both used in sources then it is not wrong for this article to use EXOSAT, certainly MOS doesn't comment on it. ChiZeroOne (talk) 15:52, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your point; however, EXOSAT does come from "European X-ray Observatory Satellite", which is why I changed the article around. The same has occurred for Solrad. SOLar RADiation satellite program (SOLRAD) has been changed to Solrad per MOS. Marshallsumter (talk) 16:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes EXOSAT is a Non-Initialism (often described as a type of acronym). If Non-Initialisms are treated like ordinary acronyms then a capitalised EXOSAT would be correct. However sometimes they are not for various reasons, and in fact ESA themselves are confused over whether EXOSAT or Exosat is the correct form. This is what led me to ask what the MOS's position on this was, unfortunately the answer appears to be that the MOS doesn't make comment on this and so we just use Common Name or failing that what the article was originally called. SOLRAD may have been changed to Solrad, but i see no reason why MOS can be used to back up either that change or this one, because nowhere does it state that is the correct form for Non-Initialisms.

I see it was GW who made the change to SOLRAD, perhaps this issue should be brought up on the WikiProject Spaceflight discussion page because there are many similar non-initialisms in spaceflight so it would be good to have a standardised viewpoint. ChiZeroOne (talk) 16:37, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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According to an article from Aarde & Kosmos issue 7 from 1986, ‘EXOSAT is niet meer’ by drs. H. Eggen, the following points were most notable about EXOSAT:

• It proved the existence of neutron stars.
• It found X-ray active galactic nuclei, suggesting black holes at their centres.
• It boosted European space research and development.

At a glance, it seems that none of these points are mentioned in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.61.180.106 (talk) 15:57, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]